IDG Contributor Network: Data governance: the start of something wonderful

Often, when people think of data governance, they think of data quality management.  It’s true – data governance enables data quality management. However, there are many enterprise data management capabilities that can be so much more successful with a robust data governance operating model in place.  Below, I identify several EDM initiatives and describes how data governance supports them.
Metadata management
Regulatory compliance
Master data management
Data quality manag